FREEDOM OF SPEECH in schools

  I do not believe that the freedom of speech is too restrictive, at least our dress code and freedoms at DHS.  If the court later decides to legalize marijuana I would not see any problem with symbols of a marijuana leaf in school.  I don't smoke or do marijuana, but i am not offended or drawn into doing marijuana by a picture of a plant.

 In the Fredrick v. Morse case I could definantly see the concern by the school, being a part of the government, being seen as supporting the use of marijuana by its students holding up a sign that includes drug references but in this case I have to agree with part of Justice Stevens dissent saying "...cannot justify disciplining Fredrick for his attempt to make an ambiguous statement..." sometimes things left alone are not as bad as when someone steps in and deals with it. Instead of a 10 day suspension which does disrupt the learning of one student for 10 days the school, after hearing that it was meant as a joke could have probably explained that the school does not want to be held liable for the promotion of illegal drug use. In Tinker v. Des Moines I agree with the courts decision 100% the schools cannot anticipate whether something is going to cause a mass disruption for the learning environment.  If the school let the students participate in their demonstration against the war by wearing armbands there would potentially be no court case and no problem on the matter as long as a peaceful school day continued. However by teachers and administrates telling the students to take the armbands off and then suspending those who did not something small and innocent enough as wearing armbands became disruptive.  As to the hypothetical that we discused in class about someone in the school having a parent fighting in the war well i would think that they would want their father to come home and the war to stop as well.